The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary: Notes in Defense of an Idea of Emancipation
暫譯: 藝術的自主性是平常的：為解放理念辯護的筆記

Kim West is a critic, researcher, and editor, based in Stockholm. His research focuses on the contemporary development of critical aesthetic thought, the cultural history of popular avantgardes, and the institutional and technological transformations of art's forms of mediation. He is currently a researcher at the department of Aesthetics at Södertörn University, where he directs the research project Autonomy, Culture, Action: On Culture's Spheres of Political Action in the Neoliberal Welfare State (2021-24). He is a founding member of the independent research group Agentur (agentur.ooo) and together with Gustav Strandberg a founding editor of the publishing house 121 Press (1-21.press).

金·韋斯特（Kim West）是一位批評家、研究者和編輯，常駐於斯德哥爾摩。他的研究專注於當代批判美學思想的發展、流行前衛文化的歷史，以及藝術媒介形式的制度性和技術性轉變。他目前是索德特爾恩大學（Södertörn University）美學系的研究員，負責研究計畫《自主、文化、行動：在新自由主義福利國家的文化政治行動領域》（Autonomy, Culture, Action: On Culture's Spheres of Political Action in the Neoliberal Welfare State，2021-24）。他是獨立研究小組Agentur（agentur.ooo）的創始成員，並與古斯塔夫·斯特蘭德貝里（Gustav Strandberg）共同創辦了出版公司121 Press（1-21.press）。